New Media and pathways to Social Change: Shifting Development Discourses bring together 16 Chapters that analyse a wide variety of issues and cases concering the interrelations between new media and social change shapping the current development discourses. It is hoped to be a welcome addition to the on-going debate on new media and information policies for sustainable development with specific, ensuring democracy, good governance in the context of multicultural and multilingual nation state. The multidisciplinary approach to a new media and development presented in this book will open avenues and discussion on the role of the new media in social transformation and empowerment. This book is a valuable resource for those readers who are interested in new media, communication studies, development studies, women's empowerment, e-governance and the political economy of communication.